Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WALLA WALLA – There will be two registration periods for enrollment in Walla Walla Public Schools for the 2016-17 school year. The first is for middle and high school students and will run through the month of February. Kindergarten and elementary parents/guardians may register their students between April 18 and April 29. Release forms may be picked up from the student’s current school and will be accepted at the receiving school in either Feb. or April. Open enrollment requests will be granted according to School Board Policy no. 3130 whi...
January 29: Dan McKinley, Wm. Hoops and Marci Jo Lanning. January 30: Aaren Lindsey, Hudson Reser, Maxine Attebury, Bob Collins, Donald Want, Jill Ziegler, Michael Flanigan, Rachel Mercer, Kari Green and Travis Williams. January 31: David Hevel, Vicki White, Michael Watson and Ward Schacht. February 1: Bob Stewart, Tamara Doepker, Debbie Peck Russell and Adam Hermanns. February 2: Lacy Wood, Grant Garrett, Lauren Broom-Vjoertomt and Brandon White. February 3: Ryan Neal, Ben Turner, Norman Hansen, Robert Weller, Eric Rohde, Mike Gauch, Joe...
11: Breakfast Bake; Fish & Chips, Slaw 1: Biscuit and Gravy; Chicken Patty on a Bun, Jojos 2: Continental Breakfast; Finger Steaks, BBQ Beans 3: Longjohn; Sloppy Joes 4: Continental Breakfast; Nachos, Pepper Strips...
By Jonathan Bernstein, The Washington Post As Elaine Kamarck recounts in The Washington Post, winning isn’t all that matters in the early contests on the presidential nomination calendar. Candidates seek to beat expectations, and the press and the parties judge the results against what they thought would happen. In fact, beating expectations can matter even more than the raw results because it affects the amount and tone of the coverage candidates get. Those, in turn, can affect voters in the next state on the calendar. A classic example: In 1...
Dear Editor, We are writing in support of the upcoming Dayton School District Levies. Nothing is more important than the children of our community. It is the responsibility of all adults in Dayton to ensure that its children have a safe environment and quality education. I encourage you to become informed on the aspects of this levy election. The replacement M & O Levy is 25% of the school district budget. The state does not fully fund the education of its children. The M & O Levy provides for sports and academic teams; a part time nurse and...
Dear Editor, I am writing this letter in support of the Dayton School M&O levy and Capital Projects Bond, not because I am an employee of the district, but because I support all schools in all communities. As a second grade student, I experienced what it was like to have a school levy fail. The elementary school I attend was closed for a year and all the students were bussed to other schools in the district. My parents had four children in two different schools due to elimination of local funding. While busing students to other schools is not...
Dear Editor, As a former science teacher and a person who often must make difficult decisions, charts and graphs, data and statistics are something I appreciate and frequently utilize. In the case of the 2016 ballot-proposed levies however, it seems to me that all of the relevant data and statistics are already available to anyone who might have interest. Instead, I’d like to talk about one. ONE student who is able to find a future career in welding that excites him through the chaos of his teenage years, and stops walking the road to substance...
Dear Editor, Five citizens coming together to serve as board of directors providing direction to the community’s public school system is the short summary of what being a school board member is all about. Behind that statement is a level of commitment which deserves to be recognized. School board members in our community serve the needs of students, employees, parents, and community members. As a group they take on the many challenges which arise throughout each school year with an eye to the future. Since 2009 I have worked with and for citize...
Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to encourage every voter in Columbia County to vote yes for the two Dayton school levies on the ballot. We need to have the maintenance and operation replacement levy pass to maintain the programs we currently have in school. This replacement levy represents about 25% of the schools total budget and needs to be passed to keep to keep our students moving in the right direction as they get ready to go out into the world. By passing the IT and Capital Levy, the school will be getting some much needed repairs...
Dear Editor, I want to preface this letter by saying that I don’t hate children and I love living in Waitsburg. So I am hoping that this letter will be taken in the spirit of “we need a break from taxes/levies” that it is intended. When I married and moved to Waitsburg in 1988, I fell in love with the small town. Not long after I moved here they tried running a levy to build a new grade school. The first time it failed, so they ran it again and put restoration of Preston Hall and restoration of the grade school on the same ballot. My husba...
By Caitlin Dewey, The Washington Post You have probably never heard of the LittleThings.com -- and Little Things is really proud of that. They've only been around 15 months, too short a time to be a household name just yet. And still, somehow, this unremarkable, freshly dug well of "inspiring, uplifting, and engaging content" pulls in something like 1.7 million unique visitors a day. In fact, on Jan. 21, the web analytics firm SimilarWeb declared it the fastest-growing news site of 2015. It started the year ranked 6.7 millionth of all sites in...
The Washington Post · Caitlin Dewey In the middle of January, in a change noticed nowhere but Spain, Facebook added six words to a single dialogue box -- and inadvertently stumbled into a tortuous national debate. The dialogue box is part of Facebook's content-reporting process, the means by which users can request that the social network censor their friends. The six words appeared to invite Spanish users to report on a new category of things: Under the option "it's inappropriate, it annoys me, or I don't like it," Facebook listed Spain's...
